Vulnerabilities > CVE-2010-3110 - Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
novell
opensuse
CWE-119
nessus
NVD
Published: 2010-10-12
Updated: 2018-10-30

Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in the Novell Client novfs module for the Linux kernel in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1 and openSUSE 11.3 allow local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Novell
2
OS
Opensuse
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Overflow Buffers
    Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
  • Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
  • Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
  • MIME Conversion
    An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.

Nessus

NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
NASL idSUSE_11_3_KERNEL-100824.NASL
descriptionThis update of the openSUSE 11.3 kernel brings the kernel to version 2.6.34.4 and contains a lot of bug and security fixes CVE-2010-3110: Missing bounds checks in several ioctls of the Novell Client novfs /proc interface allowed unprivileged local users to crash the kernel or even execute code in kernel context. CVE-2010-2524: a malicious local user could fill the cache used by CIFS do perform dns lookups with chosen data, therefore tricking the kernel into mounting a wrong CIFS server. CVE-2010-2798: a local user could trigger a NULL derefence on a gfs2 file system CVE-2010-2537: a local user could overwrite append-only files on a btrfs file system CVE-2010-2538: a local user could read kernel memory of a btrfs file system
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id75548
published2014-06-13
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75548
titleopenSUSE Security Update : Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2010:0592-1)
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
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if (description)
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CVE-2010-2524: a malicious local user could fill the cache used by
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kernel into mounting a wrong CIFS server.

CVE-2010-2798: a local user could trigger a NULL derefence on a gfs2
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}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE11\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "11.3", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);

flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-debug-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-debug-base-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-debug-devel-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-default-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-default-base-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-default-devel-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-desktop-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-desktop-base-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-devel-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-ec2-devel-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-pae-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-pae-base-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-pae-devel-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-source-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-source-vanilla-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-syms-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-trace-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-trace-base-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-trace-devel-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-vanilla-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-vanilla-base-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-vanilla-devel-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-vmi-devel-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-xen-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-xen-base-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"kernel-xen-devel-2.6.34.4-0.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"preload-kmp-default-1.1_k2.6.34.4_0.1-19.1.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"preload-kmp-desktop-1.1_k2.6.34.4_0.1-19.1.1") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "kernel-debug / kernel-debug-base / kernel-debug-devel / etc");
}

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